Regional Sales Manager - New Business

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Regional Sales Manager - New Business

This role is Hybrid, France

This is a pure net-new business role: the mandate is to bring in new logos within an assigned territory or vertical. Success is measured on new bookings — pipeline generated, opportunities created, and deals closed with organizations that are not currently Cornerstone customers.

The sales motion is twofold firstly, it draws on a consultative, technically embedded selling style and works shoulder-to-shoulder with counterparts to scope, prototype, and de-risk the solution during the sales cycle itself, and secondly, a more traditional SaaS sales motion. The goal is to walk into a signed deal with a working proof-of-concept and a shared understanding of scope.

In this role you will...

Consultative Discovery & Technical Partnership

• Gain a deep understanding of a prospect's actual workflows and data before proposing a outcome orientated solution
• Partner with a technical counterpart early in the cycle to prototype or configure a working proof-of-concept against the prospect's real use case
• Treat the sales cycle as a joint scoping exercise with the prospect's own stakeholders: co-develop the solution design with their HR/IT team so that what gets sold is what actually gets built
• Feed field learnings back to Product and Solutions Engineering to highlight patterns across prospects about what's missing, what's confusing, or what unlocks a deal
• Bring a "builder" mindset to the sales process
• Own the handoff so that what Solutions Engineering/Implementation inherits is a well-scoped, de-risked project

New Business Development & Prospecting

• Identify, prospect, and qualify new enterprise-level opportunities within an assigned territory or vertical
• Build and manage a pipeline of net-new logos from self-sourced outbound efforts and marketing-generated leads
• Research target accounts to understand their current landscape and likely pain points
• Evangelize new use cases and approaches for skills intelligence within large target organizations that aren't yet Cornerstone customers

Full-Cycle Sales Execution

• Own the complete sales cycle end-to-end: prospecting, discovery, solution positioning, demo, proposal, negotiation, and close
• Translate product functionality into concrete business value for HR and business stakeholders who are evaluating Cornerstone for the first time
• Take a consultative approach to diagnosing a prospect's talent strategy and proposing a tailored solution, not just selling against a feature list
• Consistently meet or exceed new-business quota and revenue targets

Deal Support & Technical Handoff

• Partner with Solutions Consulting / embedded technical resources from first discovery call through close
• Ensure the proof-of-concept or prototype built during the sales cycle carries forward directly into implementation, minimizing rework and re-scoping post-signature
• Collaborate with legal and deal desk to structure and finalize new-customer agreements
• Stay engaged through early implementation kickoff to confirm what was scoped in the sales cycle matches what gets delivered

You’ve got what it takes if you have...

• Strong enterprise sales and complex deal leadership experience. Strong outbound prospecting, discovery, and closing skills; comfort building pipeline largely from scratch
• Experience selling to and presenting in front of VP- and C-level executives at organizations with no prior relationship to the company
• A "figure it out together" mindset
• Comfortable operating in a consultative, technically-embedded sales motion — able to sit in on solution scoping and configuration sessions alongside a technical partner and speak credibly about how the product would actually be built and deployed, not just what it does
• Willingness to travel (typically 25–30%, primarily for prospect meetings, discovery workshops, and closing activity)
• Ability to connect AI capabilities with business priorities and measurable value.
• Credibility with senior customer stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of Cornerstone’s platform, skills strategy and AI portfolio.
• Ability to lead virtual teams without direct authority.
• Comfortable working across sales, product, services and customer success.

Our Culture:

Spark Greatness. Shatter Boundaries. Share Success. Are you ready? Because here, right now – is where the future of work is happening. Where curious disruptors and change innovators like you are helping communities and customers enable everyone – anywhere – to learn, grow and advance. To be better tomorrow than they are today.

Who We Are:

At Cornerstone, we believe in AI that works in the service of people, amplifying their judgment to drive high-performing, future-ready organizations forward. Cornerstone Workforce AI™, the intelligence platform for workforce readiness, brings together workforce and labor market data into a proprietary Cornerstone People Graph™, translating signals into intelligence, targeting learning where it matters, developing critical skills, and surfacing hidden talent. Delivered as an open, enterprise platform across whatever application your people work in every day, Cornerstone Workforce AI is built for scale, security, and trust, with certified AI guardrails. As an industry leader, Cornerstone is helping approximately 7,000 organizations, 140M+ users, across 186 countries build continuous workforce readiness.

Total Rewards:

At Cornerstone, we are dedicated to inspiring excellence and pushing boundaries in everything we do. Our compensation strategy is based on three fundamental principles: equitable pay, market-driven research, and skill-based appraisals. As part of our mission to share success and empower individuals to thrive in an ever-changing world, the listed salary range is just one element of Cornerstone’s comprehensive compensation package. This compensation package may also include annual bonuses, short- and program-specific awards depending on the role, and a comprehensive benefit offering. The disclosed salary range reflects the geographic differential based on the location of the position if applicable. The starting salary for the successful applicant will depend on several job-related factors, including education, training, experience, certifications, location, business needs, and market demands. This range is based on a full-time position and may be adjusted in the future. Join us in shaping the future of work — tomorrow, together. Experience flexibility and empowerment in your career at Cornerstone. The BASE salary range for this position is: 60000 - 96000 EUR.

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